The Houston Rockets ran this play early in the first quarter of their preseason game against the New York Knicks. This play utlilizes James Harden's (1) ability to draw attention and make reads off of the ball screen. 5 screens away for 4 to make it difficult to for x4 & x5 to help on the ball screens. As 1 turns the corner 3 sets a back screen for 5 going to the rim. 1 looks to make the pass to 5 for the lob. See More
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Golden State ran this play during their preseason game against the Los Angeles Clippers. The Warriors have skilled players at multiple positions and took advantage of Draymond Green's (4) ability to initiate the offense, effectively acting as the point guard in this play. This creates opportunities for Curry (1) to play off the ball and run his defender off of screens. After receiving the pass from Green in the pinch post, Durant (3) has the option to handoff back to Green, hit Curry off the stagger, or go one on one if those options aren't available. See More
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The Boston Celtics summer league team used this play as their regular sideline out of bounds offense. Having the 5 pop up top to receive inbounds pass gives them a safe outlet since most 5's won't deny the ball that far up the floor. 1 comes off of multiple screens before looking for the inbounder (2) on the flare screen. If 2 isn't open. 1 uses the ball screen from 5 to create a scoring opportunity. See More
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Australia ran this play down 85-84 with 41.4 seconds left in their bronze medal game against Spain. Matthew Dellavadova (1) got the inbounds pass off of the screen from 3 and drove baseline looking for Patty Mills (2)in the corner. Spain took away the hammer screen from Aron Baynes (5), so Mills cut to the FT line and received the pass from 1 for the shot to give them the lead. See More
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Spain ran this play on consecutive possessions in the last 2 minutes of the bronze medal game against Australia. On the first possession they were able to get a post up score for Pao Gasol (5). Australia denied the ball reversal the second time resulting in a layup opportunity for the 1 and a tip dunk for Gasol. See More
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Australia ran this as their opening play in the bronze medal game against Spain. Their player and ball movement were able to spread the defense out and allow Aron Baynes (4) to get an isolation in the post on the duck in. See More
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Team USA ran this early in the 1st quarter of the gold medal game against Serbia. Klay Thompson (2) made a tight curl around the first screener in the stagger (4) to pull his defender with him and keep him from providing help. Kevin Durant (3) then turned the corner on the dribble handoff for a shot. See More
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Serbia ran this play with 1:06 left in the 3rd quarter in the gold medal game against Team USA. They were able to use the backscreen to get a good look at a layup. This play also has an option for a screen for a shooter if the post player isn't open. See More
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Team USA ran this play with 5:14 left in the 1st quarter in the gold medal game against Serbia. The relatively easy screening action proved difficult to guard when they put two shooters at the 4 (Kevin Durant) and the 2 (Klay Thompson) spots. Serbia was able to deny the initial pass to Durant but when he cut to the wing his defender had to stick with him. This gave space to Thompson to read the screen and get open along the baseline for the shot. See More
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Serbia ran this play with 1:40 left in the 1st quarter in the gold medal game against Team USA. Milos Teodosic (2) made an Iverson cut as a decoy to set up the elevator screen and 3 point shot from Bogdan Boganovic. See More
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Serbia ran this as their first halfcourt play in the gold medal game against USA. Milos Teodosic (2) was able to turn the corner on the ball screen and force help from x4 in guarding 5 on the roll. This left Milan Macvan open for 3 and put Serbia up to start the game. See More
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Australia ran this play down 89-88 with 5.4 seconds left in their bronze medal game against Spain. Though Australia was unsuccessful in finishing with a score, this play provided 2 options for a handoff to get a ball handler going to the basket for a layup. Spain was able to fight through the first handoff option with 4 and deny it. On the second handoff option Australia was trying to get the ball to Patty Mills (2). x1 and x2 switched the screen and x1 denied the handoff, tipping the ball away and taking away a shot opportunity for the Australia. See More
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Spain ran this SLOB play on their final 2 possessions of the bronze medal game. In both situations they were down 1 and they were able to draw fouls to get them 2 free throws. With 35.3 seconds left Spain used the pop option and got the ball to Pau Gasol (5) where he was fouled in the post. With 9.7 seconds left Sergio Rodriguez (1) was able to turn the corner and get to the basket before drawing a foul. See More
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The USA Women's team ran this play to open the second half in their quarterfinal game against Japan. With the score relatively close at the half, they wanted to get the ball inside to help establish a post presence. When 3 cuts off of 4 at the high post, she has the option to get the handoff and take it in for a layup. If the defense takes that away and no handoff is available, 3 continues across the lane to set a cross screen for 5 to free them up for the post entry pass. See More
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The women's team from France uses this SLOB play to quickly get the ball inside. x4 has to help in defending the staggered screen, so 4 usually has no problem receiving the ball up top. The cuts from the wings help to draw attention from their defenders. This isolates the post players so they can make the high low pass. See More
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